During forced vital capacity maneuvers in subjects with expiratory flow limitation, lung volume decreases during expiration both by air flowing out of the lung (i.e., exhaled volume) and by compression of gas within the thorax. As a result, a flow-volume loop generated by using exhaled volume is not representative of the actual flow-volume relationship. We present a novel method to take into ac...

This paper considers ‘diffusion-driven flows’, for which a temperature flux condition on a sloping non-slip surface in a stratified fluid generates a slow steady upward flow along a thin ‘buoyancy layer’. The principles for this steady-flow phenomenon are well-understood in a semi-infinite fluid and more recently have been applied to steady flows within a contained fluid under more general cond...

1 Problem Statement Let I and J be two 2D grayscaled images. The two quantities I(x) = I(x, y) and J(x) = J(x, y) are then the grayscale value of the two images are the location x = [x y] , where x and y are the two pixel coordinates of a generic image point x. The image I will sometimes be referenced as the first image, and the image J as the second image. For practical issues, the images I an...

in all engineering applications where solid surfaces slide on each other, friction plays an important role. it becomes even more important, particularly in metal forming processes where the two sliding materials are metallic. among forming processes, forging is an important process, because of improving material structure, mechanical properties and reducing production time. an inverse analysis ...

Due to bandwidth constraints on the wireless link in an IP network, it is useful to compress the headers so as to maximize the utilization of the link. Different Header Compression schemes have been proposed. Some make use of the similarity in consecutive headers in a packet flow to compress these headers. These are called here time compression, as they acquire the compression information over ...

Sharafkhaneh, Amir, Todd M. Officer, Sheila GoodnightWhite, Joseph R. Rodarte, and Aladin M. Boriek. Novel method for measuring effects of gas compression on expiratory flow. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 287: R479–R484, 2004. First published April 29, 2004; 10.1152/ajpregu.00573.2003.—During forced vital capacity maneuvers in subjects with expiratory flow limitation, lung volume decre...

The mouse is an excellent model for investigations of stroke and neural injury. However, there is a paucity of long term functional outcome measurements for the mouse. We, therefore, developed a sensorimotor functional test (corner test) and applied this test to a model of focal cerebral ischemia in the mouse. Male C57/6J mice (n=20) were subjected to embolic middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlus...